How many here write with a partner or partners?
I'm not really a team player and tend to keep insanely unsociable hours so it hasn't ever really crossed my mind but I can imagine it can have huge benefits as well as pitfalls.
Have folk here considered it/ tried it and not liked it/ wouldn't do it any other way?
And what's your opinions of the pros who were in a partnership and went it alone? There don't seem to be all that many.
I use a friend to bounce idea's off and on the rare occasion I do write with him it's normally pretty good and we get alot done, but unfortunatly he wants to be a scientist of biology its a shame were dam funny together most of the time.
wouldnt mind trying it again. guess it's down to the person most of the time. I would suggest trying it ablurga you never know!
Ah, but inspiration may strike halfway up a mountain or in a police cell thus making collaborating a bit awkward.
I can imagine that you'd make plenty of progress as one person's energy is going to carry the other along.
For the Slagg Brothers, it is precisely the idea that sometimes one carries the other, when they're below par. That inspiration strikes in odd places, we write it down then bring it to brainstorming sessions. Nothing gets written 'til we've brainstormed for a month or two. When two minds work at one problem, someone can spot a better way in / out of a situation for a character / gag etc. That we have different styles and strengths can be a problem but it has too many advantages to ignore.
We have an occasional writing partner that writes novels seperately but even in the planning stage he fires ideas off at us and we get acknowledgements for character development etc.
I would suggest people try it but the key is finding the right person. SlagB and I were friends long before the writing developed. So look for a suitable 'person' (someone who can take a "that's bollocks" off you, and you them) before going into it.
Personally, I'm absolutely awful with ideas. Once I have an idea though, I tend to be able to just run with it and make it spiral and grow and so on. For that reason, I spent quite a bit of time writing with a partner, but as in the case of Paul, career and geographical changes have made it next to impossible for us to do so anymore. 
I like the support you get from a collaberative partner when the rejections start flowing in, but actually writing with somebody tends to be stressful, filled with arguments.
I've never had a partner but I wrote a radio sitcom with Jon Lea which we split in to an equal amount of scenes and wrote on our own. That worked fine - except when I sent them all to France on the Ferry and he wrote them on to the Shuttle. Gag writing is different, I find. I'm happy to pitch set ups and tags to anybody's gags on the basis that it is much easier to rewrite than to write in the first place. The drawback for me with a partner was always that you got the same dough as a solo writer but had to share it.
I'm still pretty new to comedy writing..(wrote bits and bobs in the past but never was serious enough)..but when I write my comedy podcast I write that alone as its a one man show...but I'm also working on a sitcom script and although I find it more relaxing and able to write on my own...I think working with someone to bounce ideas off would be a huge benefit...but like others have said its hard when your mates have different ambitions to you...so I'm always on the look out for a partner in crime.